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From Doan’s Craft Brewing Company in Vancouver in collaboration with Gladstone Brewing comes their “Funtimes Northern German Pilsner”. The beer pours a straw yellow colour with a white head. The aroma consists of grain, citrus with some floral hops in the finish. The flavour is of grain, citrus, sweetness, with some mild resin, herbal notes and bitterness. The alcohol content comes in at 4.7% with an IBU of 32. While I do not get excited for lagers this is an exceptionally produced lager and will be very refreshing to anyone that is looking for a good clean lager!

From Doan’s Craft Brewing Company in East Vancouver comes their “Mixed Greens IPA” part of their 1830 House Series. The beer pours a golden colour with a white head. The aroma consists of dank hops, citrus, fruity hops and a floral finish. The flavour is of super dank hops, citrus, tropical fruits, citrus rind, resinous as heck, medium bitterness and pine. The alcohol content comes in at 6.5% with an IBU of 60. Evan Doan explained this as a NE IPA that is filtered. While it is juicy it is more of a NW IPA with some juice but this is a damn good IPA and I can’t wait for it to hit the market.

April has come again and one of my favourite beer festivals has come and passed. This was the 22 annual Fest-Of-Ale in Penticton. This years festival was held on April 7-8th 2017 (Friday and Saturday). This festival is held at the Penticton Trade and Concention Centre and is comprised of a large indoor area and a small outdoor section. Both areas have live music as well as food options.

This festival continues to grow every year. This year had an extra 15 breweries bringing it up to 65 and and a total of 6 bringing it up to 71 cider and beer producers.

This year there were more than 175 craft beers being poured over the Friday and Saturday with over 5000 people in attendance. Once again this was an amazing festival with great beer and lots of great people! Here are some of the beer and food that I tried while at the fest.

This year I spent more time working on episodes of Pacific Beer Chat than I did taking photos for the blog.

Like every year this was an amazing event. There are a ton of people but you never have to wait in line long for a beer. So many beer festivals get so crowded that you almost need two samples glasses to make it to the front of the line. In the years that I have attended this has never been an issue.

This festival has become one of my absolute favorites every year. Most of the best breweries come to this festival every year and the people really love that fact! This year there were so many new beers to boot! It may not have been requested but this year so many breweries brought out North East Style IPA’s the super cloudy and juicy beers. These beers are all the rage right now and I am very happy that this is the case.

The first day of the festival I really explored the beers that the festival had to offer as I usually do. This year though the weather was very bad on the way to Penticton and you could pick out the people like me that took the Coquihalla Highway and the Okanagan Connector as were were still stressed out and drank a bit to much because of it. On Day 2 I was once again one of the as they put it Industry Expert judges for the best beers of the festival. After Juding beer from 10am on Saturday I decided like normal that the second day of the festival was far more about the food than the beer. Luckily for me the food was amazing!

If I remember correctly on Saturday around 3pm all of the judges made their way to the Main Stage for the awards ceremony. Here are the winners from this years festival.

The Awards were distributed as follows:
Best in Show, Judges’ Choice Award:
High Five Hazy IPA – Yellow Dog Brewing, Port Moody, BC

When it comes right down to it if you can only make it to one beer festival in British Columbia in a year then the Okagnagan Fest-Of-Ale is that one festival. They also have an amazing pop up liquor store to boot!

From Doan’s Craft Brewing Company in East Vancouver comes their “Black Lager”. The beer pours a deep brown colour with a brown head. The aroma consists of roasted coffee, roasted malts and earth. The flavour is of coffee, roasted malts, some caramel, ash and mild bitterness. The alcohol content comes in at 5% with an IBU of 30. I am really loving the Black Lager these days. They have tons of flavour unlike other styles of lager!

From Doan’s Craft Brewing Company in East Vancouver in collaboration with Sons Of Vancouver Distillery in North Vancouver. This beer is a blend of Doan’s Altbier and Sons of Vancouver’s No 82 Amaretto and called “No 82 Amaretto Altbier”. The beer pours a deep amber colour with a tan head. The aroma consists of honey, vanilla, caramel and apricots. The flavour is of vanilla, honey, caramel, brown sugar and apricots. The alcohol content comes in at 6% with an IBU of 25. While Doan’s Craft Brewing makes a tasty Altbier adding the Amaretto from Sons of Vancouver takes it to the next level. This is a crazy good dessert beer without being really sweet.

Commercial Description: The story goes that Evan met James Lester from SOV back when the two were homebrewing funky beers. Evan, then working at Dan’s Homebrewing on Hastings, struck up a conversation with James. A few years later the two now small business owners were cheersing one day and thought it might be nice to collaborate on something. The idea was to fortify one of the Doan’s darker beers with the No.82 Amaretto. And so the Altaretto was born. Releasing a subtle nuttiness from the Amaretto, the new beer is surprisingly well balanced with a great base provided by the German style pale that finishes with a light honey sweetness. Buy a pint at either the Brewery or at the Distillery in North Van.